I met Kellan, Ashley, Nikki, Elizabeth and Peter in Vancouver when I was visiting there last summer. They were in my damn hotel! What are the odds. I met Taylor, Kristen and Rob in NYC the weekend New Moon came out. Just showed up to the Today show and got Rob and Taylor. Saw Kristen at the premiere.

I'm a fan of them all but sadly, the only ones that were genuinely nice were kellan, taylor and Rob. Kellan is omg, sooooo nice. He talked to us in the lobby for like half an hour. Kristen didnt' want anythign to do with any fans whatsoever. She's really bugged by them!

When I was in grad school, I had a chance to become acquainted with the actress Alicia Witt. How that happened: Alicia, if you don't know, is a very talented pianist. When she and her mom moved out to Los Angeles so she could try to get her acting career started (she was about 14 or 15 at the time), she needed someplace to practice the piano. I was living in a sort of co-op for UCLA students at the time, and we had a piano. Through some sort of "six degrees" connections, she ended up using our piano for practice several days each week. She and her mom would come over every afternoon, she'd do her piano practice, and they'd often stay for dinner, so all of us got to know them pretty well. Alicia is super-smart (she was studying calculus at the time), but also, at least when I knew her, very down-to-earth and pretty friendly.

"May the hinges of friendship never rust, nor the wings of love lose a feather"--Scottish blessing